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Got any interesting thoughts on a set of lyrics? Any that don't involve the word "indeed"? Find yourself struggling to decipher all those obtuse references Von makes? Read "1959 And All That" and still no clearer? Nope, us neither. Postcards found lying in a skip around the back of the Chemists can be found here... Don't say you weren't warned.
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alanm
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Reckon it's about sex.
"thousand suns" -> orgasm
"one and one is only one" -> i.e. beast with two backs
"fade into the one" -> love is over in the morning

Anyway Von's never been one to fit one meaning in a line when two will do.
Do you remember a time when angels... do you remember a time when fear?
In the days when I was stronger, in the days when you were here?
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lilac
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FadeInto1 wrote: ↑12 Nov 2024, 09:11 That's nice of you to say, cheers.

I suppose the other part of the lyric that has got me on this line of thinking is "One and one is only one", which I think encapsulates the loneliness of witnessing one's partner lose all memory of their self: you can be sat there with someone who is the other half of you, and find yourself despairing that one plus one no longer equals two. At the same time: we are made of stardust, and perhaps in some cosmic sense, the process by which two people "fade into one" is a process of unification. At some point, if I'm the last person left to remember you, then all that can be known of you is in me.

I really feel strongly that QB imagines (or maybe documents) a dialogue between two people whose relationship is collapsing at the same rate as one partner's mind.
Sorry nothing constructive to add but I have to echo that this is a really lovely interpretation.
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